Biomechanical and skeletal muscle determinants of maximum running speed with aging

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 844-856

  Korhonen, Marko T ^a   Mero, Antti A ^a   AlIn, Markku ^a,d   Sipila, Sarianna ^a   Hakkinen, Keijo ^a   Liikavainio, Tuomas ^b   Viitasalo, Jukka T ^c   Haverinen, Marko T ^a,e   Suominen, Harri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c KIHU Research Institute for Olympic Sports   (Finland)

^d OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^e Pajulahti Sports Institute   (Finland)

Author keywords

Locomotion; Master athlete; Muscle fiber; Sprint running; Strength

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANKLE; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DETERIORATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; GROUND REACTION FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JUMPING; KINEMATICS; KNEE; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUNNING; RUNNING SPEED; SKELETAL MUSCLE; THICKNESS; TIME; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE;

ACCELERATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIOMECHANICS; BODY COMPOSITION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RUNNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650094003     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e3181998366     Document Type: Article

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